Exiles and Idealists: A Private Collection of Russian Literary Manuscripts
Sale #20908
Assembled over 30 years, the 250 lots of the collection tell the story of Russian literature over two centuries from 1800 almost to the present day, with a full alphabet of writers, from Anna Akhmatova to Vasily Zhukovsky.
At the heart of the sale are major collections relating to six giants of Russian literature: Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Bunin and the pre-eminent literary couple, Zinaida Gippius and Dmitri Merezhkovsky. Alongside these are letters, manuscripts and inscribed photographs of extreme rarity on the market, by such key figures as Mikhail Bulgakov, Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, Velimir Khlebnikov, Andrei Bely, Sergei Yesenin and Daniil Kharms.
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Christie's - London
8 King Street St. James 's
London, UK
51.506573019969, -0.13736800000001
Christie's - London
